We planned to vote early yesterday. I looked up the wait times at the Buncombe county website, and at our closest location, the wait time was 25 people. That seemed manageable, so off we went.
Our county has early voting at local libraries, and our closest branch doesn't have much parking, even when there's no voting happening. It's also beside one of the bigger local high schools, so I worried a bit about getting in the way of carpools. But I thought that we could park there, if need be.
Ha! The kindly traffic directing person told me that the overflow parking across the street at the church was full, and that all the traffic clogging the main road was voting traffic, not carpool traffic. So off we went, across back roads, and we will try again later.
I wanted to vote early yesterday in case we couldn't cast our votes--we'd still have other chances. But I didn't really expect that we wouldn't be able to vote yesterday. Happily, I have several back up plans. We'll try to go to a different library branch on Thursday. If all else fails, polls open at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, and I can vote before I head down the mountain to Spartanburg. I don't want to wait until after work on election day, for fear of being unable to get there.
I am not unhappy that we couldn't vote yesterday, although I did want to get it done. But I am thrilled that so many are voting.
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